For your next assignment you will curate an installation / exhibit on one or more wiki pages for one post-war / contemporary artist of your choice. Your installation will display at least ten images or examples of that artists work, provide background information about the work and artist, and use at least one example as a case study where you position that work within the contemporary art world and discuss what you see as the cultural significance of that artist's work.

The proposal

A proposal for your installation / exhibit is due March 23. The proposal (1-2 pp) should include the following:

• the artist you have picked with a brief list of the sources you have found
• the rationale for selecting this artist and the example you think you will showcase
• a brief explanation of the position you will take about this artist's work
• a preliminary description of how you intend to install the exhibit (see below)

The installation / exhibit

I will work with you to plan and construct the installation, but your proposal should give some indication of how you would like to manage it. The simplest paradigm is to create a Flickr slide show which you embed on a wiki page and then add the rest of the material for the showcase example to that page as I did for the Jeff Koons and Andy Warhol pages.

You can also propose more "creative" installations which use a wiki page as a jumping off point for something more complex that you think better suits the spirit of the artists work. You could, for example, use a VodPod viewer or Capzles show, particularly if you are dealing with a video artist. You could also incorporate any other social media site into the installation such as a Google site, MySpace page, YouTube page, etc. Google sites gives you considerably more freedom and control over the design and look of the installation - see, for example, my Visual Culture Web site and another site I designed with a colleague, It is also very easy to create slide shows with audio tracks on Picasa. which can be uploaded to YouTube See Creative Commons Search for music and video you can legally use that will not be deleted by the YouTube police.

How to pick and position an artist

The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters ( Africa ), Yinka Shonibare

You are free to pick anyone born after WW II who creates visual "stuff" that you are willing to designate as art, including any of the artists referenced in Seven Days in the Art World, pages in this wiki, or anyone whose work falls outside the normal definition of art (comics, graphic design/novels, video and video mashups, street and grafitti "art," etc). Just make sure you can find enough material about them and examples to exhibit.

One way to select an artist is to decide first if you want to pick one of the known artists mentioned in Seven Days and/or represented here on the pages for Afro Modern, the Christie's auctions, CalArts, the Whitney Biennial, and Skin Fruit (see below for a listing of the last three). You can also search through any of the links on the left navigation frame under places and spaces. A particularly good source for a diverse list are the artists who have appeared in the PBS series Art21

Another way to select an artist is to first decide on the position you want to consider. As Thornton notes in the preface to Seven Days, "contemporary art has become a kind of alternative religion for atheists" (p. xiv). And it is certainly a religion with many denominations. For one way to classify artists, look at the Village Voice review of the Whitney Biennial (bottom of page) where Christian Viveros-Fauné divides some of the artists in the show into three types: new modernists; post-minimalists, and the new realists(see also neoreallism). You can also consider the world of low-brow art and deviant art. And see the Wikipedia entry for net.art.

A third way to select an artist is by gender and /or ethnic background. I have used stars and bold type font to indicate the artists in the lists below who are known not to be straight white males. My own suggestions for this category from the lists below and Art21 are:

• Janine Antoni,
• Nina Berman
• Huma Bhabha
• Mark Bradford
• Paul Chan
• Cao Fei
• Theaster Gates
• Trenton Doyle Hancock
• William E. Jones
• Terence Koh
• Sarah Lucas
• Liza Lou
• Kerry James Marshall
• Rashaad Newsome
• Paul Pfeiffer
• Tam Tran
• Doris Salcedo
• Aki Sasamoto
• Yinka Shonibare
• Stephanie Sinclair
• Kiki Smith
• Chris Ofili
• Kara Walker

You should note that the Skin Fruit show is more international than the Whitney Biennial, which is restricted to American artists. The Whitney Biennial, however, is notable for the number of female artists included in the show - see Triumph: Women Win Slim Majority in Next Whitney Biennial.

Registering your selection

Each of you should pick a different artist. The first claim on an artist wins. To register and time stamp your selection, click on the post "Registering Your Artist" below and follow the instructions there so that the name of the artist you claim shows up in the discussion board list here.

Some possible artists

Whitney Biennial	Skin Fruit	The Crit
David Adamo Richard Aldrich Michael Asher *Tauba Auerbach *Nina Berman *Huma Bhabha Josh Brand *The Bruce High Quality Foundation James Casebere *Edgar Cleijne and Ellen Gallagher *Dawn Clements George Condo *Sarah Crowner Verne Dawson *Julia Fish Roland Flexner *Suzan Frecon *Maureen Gallace *Theaster Gates *Kate Gilmore *Hannah Greely Jesse Aron Green Robert Grosvenor *Sharon Hayes Thomas Houseago Alex Hubbard *Jessica Jackson Hutchins *Jeffrey Inaba Martin Kersels Jim Lutes *Babette Mangolte Curtis Mann Ari Marcopoulos Daniel McDonald *Josephine Meckseper *Rashaad Newsome *Kelly Nipper *Lorraine O’Grady *R.H. Quaytman Charles Ray *Emily Roysdon *Aki Sasamoto *Aurel Schmidt Scott Short *Stephanie Sinclair *Ania Soliman *Storm Tharp *Tam Tran *Kerry Tribe Piotr Uklański *Lesley Vance *Marianne Vitale *Erika Vogt *Pae White Robert Williams	*Paweł Althamer Born 1967 in Warsaw, Poland Lives and works in Warsaw, Poland David Altmejd Born 1974 in Montreal, Canada Lives and works in London, United Kingdom, and Montreal, Canada * Janine Antoni Born 1964 in Freeport, Bahamas Lives and works in New York, NY *assume vivid astro focus Born sometime between the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, in various parts of the world Nomads *Tauba Auerbach Born 1981 in San Francisco, CA Lives and works in New York, NY, and San Francisco, CA Matthew Barney Born 1967 in San Francisco, CA Lives and works in New York, NY - The Cremaster Cycle *Vanessa Beecroft Born 1969 in Genoa, Italy Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA Artist's website *Ashley Bickerton Born 1959 in Barbados, West Indies Lives in Kuta Bali, Indonesia John Bock Born 1965 in Gribbohm, Germany Lives and works in Berlin, Germany The Big Sleep *Mark Bradford Born 1961 in Los Angeles, CA Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA Art21 Maurizio Cattelan Born 1960 in Padua, Italy Lives and works in New York, NY, and Milan, Italy - Marian Goodman Gallery La Nona Ora *Paul Chan Born 1973 in Hong Kong, China Lives and works in New York, NY Dan Colen Born 1979 in Leonia, NJ Lives and works in New York, NY Nigel Cooke Born 1973 in Manchester, United Kingdom Lives and works in London, United Kingdom Roberto Cuoghi Born 1973 in Modena, Italy Lives and works in Milan, Italy *Nathalie Djurberg Born 1978 in Lysekil, Sweden Lives and works in Berlin, Germany *Haris Epaminonda Born 1980 in Nicosia, Cyprus Lives and works in Berlin, Germany Urs Fischer Born 1973 in Zurich, Switzerland Lives and works in New York, NY Robert Gober Born 1954 in Wallingford, Connecticut Lives and works in New York, NY Matt Greene Born 1972 in Atlanta, GA Lives and works in New York, NY Mark Grotjahn Born 1968 in Pasadena, CA Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA Adam Helms Born 1974 in Tucson, AZ Lives and works in New York, NY *Jenny Holzer Born 1950 in Gallipolis, OH Lives and works in Hoosick, NY Elliott Hundley Born 1975 in Greensboro, North Carolina Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA Mike Kelley Born 1954 in Detroit, MI Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA *Terence Koh Born 1977 in Beijing, China Lives and works in New York, NY Jeff Koons Born 1955 in York, Pennsylvania Lives and works in New York, NY *Liza Lou Born 1969 in New York, NY Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA Nate Lowman Born 1979 in Las Vegas, NV Lives and works in New York, NY Mark Manders Born 1968 in Volkel, the Netherlands Lives and works in Arnhem, the Netherlands Paul McCarthy Born 1945 in Salt Lake City, UT Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA Dave Muller Born 1965 in San Francisco, CA Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA *Takashi Murakami Born 1963 in Tokyo, Japan Lives and works in Tokyo, Japan and Long Island City, NY *Tim Noble and Sue Webster Tim Noble: Born 1966 in Stroud, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom Sue Webster: Born 1967 in Leicester, United Kingdom Live and work together in Shoreditch, East London, United Kingdom *Cady Noland Born 1956 in Washington, D.C. Lives and works in New York, NY *Chris Ofili Born 1968 Manchester, United Kingdom Lives and works in London, United Kingdom Seth Price Born 1973 in East Jerusalem, Israel Lives and works in New York, NY Richard Prince Born 1949 in Panama Canal Zone, Panama Lives and works in Rensselaerville, NY Charles Ray Born 1953 in Chicago, IL Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA *Tino Sehgal Born 1976 in London, United Kingdom Lives and works in Berlin, Germany Jim Shaw Born 1952 in Midland, MI Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA *Cindy Sherman Born 1954 in Glen Ridge, NJ Lives and works in New York, NY *Kiki Smith Born 1954 in Nuremberg, Germany Lives and works in New York, NY *Christiana Soulou Born 1961 in Athens, Greece Lives and works in Athens, Greece Jannis Varelas Born 1977 in Athens, Greece Lives and works in Athens, Greece, and Vienna, Austria *Kara Walker Born 1969 in Stockton, CA Lives and works in New York, NY *Gillian Wearing Born 1963 in Birmingham, United Kingdom Lives and works in London, United Kingdom *Andro Wekua Born 1977 in Sochumi, Georgia Lives and works in Zurich, Switzerland Franz West Born 1947 in Vienna, Austria Lives and works in Vienna, Austria Christopher Wool Born 1955 in Chicago, IL Lives and works in New York, NY	John Ballessari images Jeremy Blake images *Ross Bleckner images Chris Burden images *Ingrid Calame images Michael Craig-Martin images Sam Durant images Eric Fischl images *Charles Gaines images Damien Hirst images Gary Hume images *William E. Jones images *Mary Kelly images *Sarah Lucas images Dave Muller images Bruce Nauman images *Laura Owens images Hirsch Perlman images *Monique Prieto images Stephen Prina images David Salle images Robert Smithsen images James Turrell images Christopher Williams images